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Ca.1957: TOS USAF. By 1967: 374th TAW, Naha Air Base, Okinawa. Flew Operation Blind Bat missions in Vietnam. Nov '72: TOS South Vietnam Air Force. 1975: TOS USAF. Assigned to 35th TAS, Naha Air Base, Okinawa. UNK: 105th TAS/118th TAW (ANG), Berry Field ANG Base, Nashville, TN. By 6/80: 64th TAS/440th TAW (AFRES), O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL. 6/87: To unknown with c/r N223MA. Used in 1980s for an Oldsmobile commercial where 6 prototypes were dropped out the back of the aircraft. All of the cars were destroyed in the drops.

Mar '57: TOS USAF and assigned to 774th Troop Carrier Squadron/463rd Troop Carrier Wing, Ardmore AFB, OK. Was one of the Four Horsemen Demonstration Team. Ca.1967: 35th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Naha Air Base, Okinawa. Later to 303rd TAS, Richards-Gebaur AFB, MO.; 95th TAS/440th Tactical Airlift Wing, Milwaukee, WI ; 64th TAS/928th Airlift Wing (AFRES), O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL. Aug '89: TBM Inc, Redmond, OR with c/r N473TM. Operated as Fire Service #63. 13 Mar 15: Castle Air Museum Foundation Inc, Atwater, CA. 23 Nov 15; Ferried to Castle Air Museum Foundation Inc.

13 Sep '56: TOS USAF as C-130A. Ca.1966: 374th Tactical Airlift Wing, Naha Air Base, Okinawa. Mar'68: While flying in operation Blind Bat in Vietnam, aircraft suffered serious damage from anti-aircraft fire, including inflight fire inside and outside aircraft. Sent back to USA. Nov'68 to Jun'69: Extensive repairs by Lockheed, converted to NC-130A. Feb'71: 21st TAS, Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, Taiwan. Dec'73: 64th TAS/928th Airlift Wing (AFRES), O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL. By Apr'89: 176th TFS (ANG), Truax Field ANGB, WI. 19 Oct 89: Ferried to Dyess AFB, TX for Texas Museum of Military History.

Ca.1956: taken on strength USAF. [May have flown in Vietnam] Ca.1967: 327th Tactical Airlift Squadron/913th Tactical Airlift Group, Willow Grove Air Reserve Facility, PA. After 1971: 314th Troop Carrier Wing, Little Rock AFB, AR. By 1980: 64th Tactical Airlift Squadron (AFRES), O'Hare Air Reserve Station, Chicago, IL. 10/88: TOS Bolivian Air Force as TAM 64. November 1988: Air Squadron 710 (Esc 710)/Transport Group 71/First Air Brigade, El Alto, Brazil. By 1997: Assigned to La Paz, Bolivia for storage. By March 2000: WFU, stored without engines.

Tanker 64 C-130A is seen taxiing back to the fire base for a re-load on retardant

Delivered to the USAF as 57-517 in 1959. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ in 1976. Sold as N9539G in 1981. Reregistered as N3226B in 1982. Stored at Marana. In poor condition by 1989. Restored for Trans Latin Air as HP-1162TLN in 1990 then to AeroPostal Cargo as XA-RSH in 1992. Withdrawn from use at Mexico City by 1996. Still there in the aircraft cemetery by the NE side of the airport in 2024.

Built for the USAF as 57-518 in 1959. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ in 1976. Left in 1984 and registered as N9691N in 1986. To Aero Postal Mexico as XA-RYZ in 1993. Withdrawn from use at Mexico City by 1996. Still there in the aircraft cemetery by the NE side of the airport in 2024.

The National Vigilance Park is near the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade. Intelligence gathering aircraft can be found in the park, with this Hercules, real serial 57-0453, posing as 60528, which was shot down over the Soviet Republic of Armenia in 1958.

Note "632" on the nose.

This was the first C-130 to visit New Zealand. It was part of large contingent of aircraft from the USAF for the anniversary. The RNZAF would later buy a fleet of the workhorses and New Zealand was also a base for US Navy C-130s heading to Antarctica Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand